Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-04-07

sufficient to defray funeral expenses. and
to repeal chapter Is, laws of Wisconsin
for the year 1855, relating thereto. To
provide for the raising of a tax OF
one-ifth of one mil, in addition to all
other taxes, to be used for the relief of
INDECENT ex-union soldiers, sailors and
mariners and their INDECENT wives, wild
ows and minor children, and also an
amendment providing the. the benefits
contemplated by said bill should be addi-
tional to all other benefits provided for
all citizess by law. Providing for the
temporary relief of ex-union soldiers,
sailors and mariners and their INDECENT
wives, widows and minor childred with
out requiring them to go TO the poor or
aims houses. To amend section 2O02, re-
vised statutes, so as to enable posts OF
the Grand Army of the Republic to be-
come bodies corporate the same as SINH
lar societies, and extending TO them the
privileges and benefits of said section
2002 A large number o. bills of local
Importance only were concuresd in, and
large number passed.
WEDNESDAY, March 80
Senate.-The senate got down to bust
ness to-day and ground ont n goedly
amount of work. A large batch of bills
were passed many indefinitely postponed
and but few concurred in. Assembly bill
No. 566, 70 amend chapter 81, of the re-
vlsed statutes of 1878, relating to rail
roads, by adding new section to be num-
bered 12l39-in addition TO the license
fee provided to be paid in section 1918,
all railroads shall furnish free transporta-
ton to all members of the legislature
and the officers thereof, state officers,
judges of courts OF record and sherifrs of
this state during their term OF ofice-hRv-
ing been called an, amotion to indefinite
ly postpone was discussed at length and
warmly. The motion to indefinitely post
pone was finally carried. Ayes, 81; noes,
/. A motion by Sen. Erwin buried the
bill for this season.
HouSe-The assembly held three SOS
sions to. day and business has commenc-
ed in dead earnest. Among other bills
concurred in is one requiring that all
the bodies of all INDECENT ex-union sol
diers shall be inferred at the public ex-
pense at an expense of not to exceed
$50 for each interment. Also one pro-
yiding that any graduate of the pedagog-
ical department of the state university
shall be entitled to q teachers certificate,
emitting him to teach in any public
school of the state, providing he has
taught for a period of eight months after
receiving his diploma, and is duly quail
fed in the judgement of the state super
intendent to teach. The bill TO estab-
lish the Wisconsin State Agricultural
School and to appropriate money there
fore was indefinitely postponed by a vote
of So to 16.
THURsDAT, March, 81.
Sendte-The governor sent in the APP
pointment of w. w. Reed of jefferson, a
member of the state board OF charities
and reform which was confirmed. few
bill we're passed and large number CON
Cured in among the more important be-
ing: To amend section 1910, of the revised
statutes, relating 70 lands sold for taxes.
To repeal chapter 291 of the laws of
1885, and chapter 100 of the laws of 1883,
and to re-enact, with certain amendments,
chapter 6S, of the revised statutes, rela
ting TO auctions and auctioneers.
To amend section 2622 of the revised
statutes, entitled, "of the place
of trial of civil actions" Son.
Widule moved that the vote by
which assembly bill No. 622, to amend
section 1880 of the revised statutes, in re-
lation to obscene and criminal literature,
was ordered to third reading, be recon
sidered. Carried; and the bill was, on
motion, indefinitely postponed.
HouSe-But few bills were coneurred
in, the most important one being bill
making the standard cranberry barrel
1928 inches high, 10 d inches in diameter
at the head and Is inches at the bilge,
and making the standard bushel crate ~
inches long, 1214 inches wide and 715 in
ches deep. At the evening session the
assembly listened to a report from the
chief clerk which Is as follows
Total number Of bills introduced ....... . ST.
Indefinitely postponed ...................... 2S'
Passed Observation-Disclosures. ........ 6;
In hands of committees 49,. ......... 81
Ordered engrossed. and not yet reported o.. i
In hands OF committees, lis on third reading {
IN cs.enuar -.,..-.....-- ..........,....... q
Dead he ads. ........-............. 6,
In clerks hand for cal, ndar tom crrow Ii
g:
Assembly bills in tie senate ............ l1S
Senate bills in the assembly .........,..... q
About twenty bills were indefinitely
postponed, after which the assembly ad-
journeG. ur
FBIDAI, March 81.
Senatc.-The following more important
assembly bills were concurred in: To pre-
vent interference with persons employed
at lawful labor, or with the use or Opera.
tons of machinery. To submit to the
people an amendment to section l. article
10, of the constitution of the state OF Wis
consin, relating to education. To repeal
chapter 217, laws of 1885, and to re enact